The Geeky Brit

So on my lovely wife’s lovely new Hp Laptop, there is a really annoying problem. 

A couple of weeks ago, she explained (she never complains) that the XP Luna theme kept disappearing.  Now some of you may think this to be an acceptable issue, as you never "graduated" from windows classic mode, but my wife is rather fond of the bubble gum theme. 

On investigation I found that the theme service had stopped running.  I changed the recovery options on that service to automatically restart if it ever failed, and that seemed to fix that problem… For a while

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Two news items that caught my attention on the net recently.

CBS has signed a deal with Joost to make top current and classic programming available for free, to our viewers and the BBC is to open up its vast archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial.

People, mark my word.  With DVR’s and On-Demand programming, the way we watch TV has changed forever. 

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One of the things that I used as an excuse was that the blog editor I was using (marsedit) was a demo, and it expired. 

Whilst I loved the integration with NetNewsWire I did not feel it justified the price, when there were other good free editors out there – and at the end of the day, I could always use the web editing features that my wordpress blog offers

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Avid readers,

You may indeed have noticed a distinct drop in the number of posts recently.  Well I have been extremely busy, and to be honest I may not have had much to say about anything. 

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